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In the civil law. Authority. In old European law. A diploma, or royal charter. A word frequently used by Gregory of Tours and later writers. Spelman.

In Indian law. Agent; officer; native collector of revenue; superintendent of a district or division of a country, either on the part of the government zemindar or renter.

The handwriting of any one.

L Fr. Chance; hazard; mischance.

In the civil law. A grandmother. Inst. 3, 6, 3.

A term used in old statutes, signifying a lying in wait, or waylaying.

The assise falls (turns) into a jury; hence to submit a controversy to trial by jury.

One who signs his name to an instrument, at the request of the party or parties, for the purpose of proving and identifying it. Skinner v. Bible Soc., 92 Wis. 209, Oo

To annul; cancel; make yoid; to destroy the efficacy of anything.

An action employed in behalf of a buyer to compel a seller to perform his obligations or pay compensation: also to enforce any special agreements by him, embodied in a contract of

In the civil law. An action against the person, founded on a personal liability; an action seeking redress for the violation of a jus in personam or right available against a particular

That is in action; that demands action ; actually subsisting; the opposite of passive. An active debt is one which draws interest. An active trust is a confidence connected with a duty.

In the civil law. A species of right of way, consisting in the right of driving cattle, or a carriage, over the land subject to the servitude. Inst. 2, 3, pr. It

To another tribunal; belonging to another court, cognizance, or jurisdiction.

At a day; at the day. Townsh. Pi. 23. Ad certum diem, at a certain day. 2 Strange, 747. Solvit ad diem; lie paid at or on the day. 1 Chit. Pi.

For this; for this special purpose. An attorney ad hoc, or a guardian or curator ad hoc, is one appointed for a special purpose, generally to represent the client or infant in

At hand; ready for use. Et querens sectam halicat ad manum; and the plaintiff immediately have his suit ready. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 44,

To which there was no answer. A phrase used in the reports, where a point advanced in argument by one party was not denied by the other; or where a point or

To Inspect the womb. A writ for the summoning of a jury of matrons to determine the question of pregnancy.

Noble; excellent. A title of honor among the Anglo- Saxons, properly belonging to the king’s children. Spelman.